French cinema: 1950s
Cargaison blanche (1958)
Georges Lacombe
After her colleague Jean is killed in a road accident, aspiring reporter Françoise soon suspects he may have been the victim of foul play and begins her own investigation...
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Georges Lacombe
Carnaval (1953)
Henri Verneuil
Dardamelle, an architect living in Aix-en-Provence, is blissfully unaware that his wife, Francine, is having an affair with another man...
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Henri Verneuil
Caroline chérie (1951)
Richard Pottier
July, 1789. On the eve of the French Revolution, Caroline de Bièvre is sixteen years old. Arriving in Paris to complete her education, she is disappointed to find that her intended, Gaston de Sallanches, has a mistress...
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Richard Pottier
Le Carrosse d'or (1953)
Jean Renoir
In the 18th Century, a travelling band of actors arrive in a Spanish colony in South America. When they are invited to perform before the royal court, the Viceroy, Ferdinand, instantly falls in love with the leading performer, Camilla...
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Jean Renoir
Le Cas du Dr Laurent (1957)
Jean-Paul Le Chanois
Docteur Laurent leaves Paris to start a new practice in a French mountain community. At first, he is treated as an outsider and shunned by the locals...
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Jean-Paul Le Chanois
Casimir (1950)
Richard Pottier
Success may so far have eluded him in his chosen career but Casimir is certain that he will soon make enough money as a travelling salesman to allow him to marry his beloved fiancée... [More...]
Richard Pottier
Success may so far have eluded him in his chosen career but Casimir is certain that he will soon make enough money as a travelling salesman to allow him to marry his beloved fiancée... [More...]
Casque d'or (1952)
Jacques Becker
The setting is the Belleville district of Paris circa 1900. At a riverside guinguette, carpenter Georges Manda meets an attractive young woman named Marie and immediately falls under her spell... [More...]
Jacques Becker
The setting is the Belleville district of Paris circa 1900. At a riverside guinguette, carpenter Georges Manda meets an attractive young woman named Marie and immediately falls under her spell... [More...]
Ce corps tant désiré (1959)
Luis Saslavsky
In a small village on the Etang de Thau in southern France, two families, the Ferauds and the Messardiers, make their living by harvesting mussels in the saltwater lagoons... [More...]
Luis Saslavsky
In a small village on the Etang de Thau in southern France, two families, the Ferauds and the Messardiers, make their living by harvesting mussels in the saltwater lagoons... [More...]
Cela s'appelle l'aurore (1956)
Luis Buñuel
Despite his bourgeois origins, Dr Valerio devotes himself to treating the poor on an island in the Mediterranean. His wife Angela leaves him to spend time with her family in Nice, having failed to persuade him to pursue a more lucrative career serving the idle rich in the south of France... [More...]
Luis Buñuel
Despite his bourgeois origins, Dr Valerio devotes himself to treating the poor on an island in the Mediterranean. His wife Angela leaves him to spend time with her family in Nice, having failed to persuade him to pursue a more lucrative career serving the idle rich in the south of France... [More...]
Celui qui doit mourir (1957)
Jules Dassin
In the 1920s, with Greece is under Turkish occupation, the inhabitants of a small town are making preparations for the annual Passion play... [More...]
Jules Dassin
In the 1920s, with Greece is under Turkish occupation, the inhabitants of a small town are making preparations for the annual Passion play... [More...]
Cent francs par seconde (1953)
Jean Boyer
Fernand is a good-for-nothing who takes part in radio competitions in the hope of winning the prizes on offer. One day, he persuades a sympathetic young man named Philippe to take his place in one such competition, Cent francs par seconde, insisting that if Philippe wins he, Fernand, will receive a share of the winnings... [More...]
Jean Boyer
Fernand is a good-for-nothing who takes part in radio competitions in the hope of winning the prizes on offer. One day, he persuades a sympathetic young man named Philippe to take his place in one such competition, Cent francs par seconde, insisting that if Philippe wins he, Fernand, will receive a share of the winnings... [More...]
Ces dames préfèrent le mambo (1957)
Bernard Borderie
Seafarer Burt Brickford winds up in a South American port where he attracts the attention of a stranger, Pérez, who offers to give him a passport in return for captaining a yacht on a pleasure trip to the Caribbean... [More...]
Bernard Borderie
Seafarer Burt Brickford winds up in a South American port where he attracts the attention of a stranger, Pérez, who offers to give him a passport in return for captaining a yacht on a pleasure trip to the Caribbean... [More...]
Ces sacrées vacances (1956)
Robert Vernay
The long-awaited summer vacation upon them, the Pinsons can hardly wait to embark on their camping holiday on the Riviera... [More...]
Robert Vernay
The long-awaited summer vacation upon them, the Pinsons can hardly wait to embark on their camping holiday on the Riviera... [More...]
Cet homme est dangereux (1953)
Jean Sacha
After breaking out of a prison in Oklahoma, Lemmy Caution travels to the French Riviera to make contact with Miranda Van Zelden, an heiress who is the likely target of a gang of kidnappers... [More...]
Jean Sacha
After breaking out of a prison in Oklahoma, Lemmy Caution travels to the French Riviera to make contact with Miranda Van Zelden, an heiress who is the likely target of a gang of kidnappers... [More...]
Cette nuit là... (1958)
Maurice Cazeneuve
Jean Maillet and his dazzlingly photogenic wife Sylvie both work for a publishing house owned by Monsieur Reverdy, a ruthless businessman who is used to getting what he wants... [More...]
Maurice Cazeneuve
Jean Maillet and his dazzlingly photogenic wife Sylvie both work for a publishing house owned by Monsieur Reverdy, a ruthless businessman who is used to getting what he wants... [More...]
Cette sacrée gamine (1956)
Michel Boisrond
The police suspect cabaret owner Paul Latour of being a banknote forger. To evade arrest, Paul beats a hasty retreat from Paris, but before he goes he asks his cabaret's star performer Jean Clery to look after his daughter, Brigitte... [More...]
Michel Boisrond
The police suspect cabaret owner Paul Latour of being a banknote forger. To evade arrest, Paul beats a hasty retreat from Paris, but before he goes he asks his cabaret's star performer Jean Clery to look after his daughter, Brigitte... [More...]
Le Chanteur de Mexico (1956)
Richard Pottier
Monsieur Cartoni, an important impresario, is organising a lavish operetta in Mexico when he runs into serious difficulties... [More...]
Richard Pottier
Monsieur Cartoni, an important impresario, is organising a lavish operetta in Mexico when he runs into serious difficulties... [More...]
Chaque jour a son secret (1958)
Claude Boissol
Some years after having been thought killed in a aeroplane crash in South America, Olga Lezcano returns to France to discover that her husband, André, a famous ethnologist, has just died of a heart attack... [More...]
Claude Boissol
Some years after having been thought killed in a aeroplane crash in South America, Olga Lezcano returns to France to discover that her husband, André, a famous ethnologist, has just died of a heart attack... [More...]
Le Château de verre (1950)
René Clément
Evelyne Bertal could not be happier, living the kind of life most people would envy in Berne with her devoted husband Laurent, a lawyer... [More...]
René Clément
Evelyne Bertal could not be happier, living the kind of life most people would envy in Berne with her devoted husband Laurent, a lawyer... [More...]
La Châtelaine du Liban (1956)
Richard Pottier
In Lebanon, Hennequin, the managing director of a French petroleum company, has just acquired the mining concessions in a remote region of the country from the Countess Athelstane Orloff... [More...]
Richard Pottier
In Lebanon, Hennequin, the managing director of a French petroleum company, has just acquired the mining concessions in a remote region of the country from the Countess Athelstane Orloff... [More...]
La Chatte (1958)
Henri Decoin
Paris during the Nazi Occupation. A patrol of German soldiers raid a house from which illicit radio transmissions are being sent... [More...]
Henri Decoin
Paris during the Nazi Occupation. A patrol of German soldiers raid a house from which illicit radio transmissions are being sent... [More...]
Le Chemin des écoliers (1959)
Michel Boisrond
Paris, 1943. With the country still under Nazi occupation and commodities severely rationed, ordinary French people muddle through as best they can... [More...]
Michel Boisrond
Paris, 1943. With the country still under Nazi occupation and commodities severely rationed, ordinary French people muddle through as best they can... [More...]
Chéri (1950)
Pierre Billon
Paris, at the time of the Belle Époque... Known to his female admirers as Chéri, Fred Peloux is the son of the high-class courtesan Charlotte Peloux and spends most of his time in the company of his mother's friends, all fading prostitutes... [More...]
Pierre Billon
Paris, at the time of the Belle Époque... Known to his female admirers as Chéri, Fred Peloux is the son of the high-class courtesan Charlotte Peloux and spends most of his time in the company of his mother's friends, all fading prostitutes... [More...]
Le Chevalier de la nuit (1954)
Robert Darène
In 1884, Bella Fontanges is the most famous ballet dancer in Paris, but professional success is no substitute for love. She regrets that her lover, the nobleman Georges de Ségar, no longer shows her the tenderness that he used to when he was a young man... [More...]
Robert Darène
In 1884, Bella Fontanges is the most famous ballet dancer in Paris, but professional success is no substitute for love. She regrets that her lover, the nobleman Georges de Ségar, no longer shows her the tenderness that he used to when he was a young man... [More...]
Chiens perdus sans collier (1955)
Jean Delannoy
With no relatives of his own to take care of him, little Alain Robert ends up being placed in the care of a farming family in the country... [More...]
Jean Delannoy
With no relatives of his own to take care of him, little Alain Robert ends up being placed in the care of a farming family in the country... [More...]
Les Chiffonniers d'Emmaüs (1955)
Robert Darène
In the late 1940s, Abbé Pierre decides to open a centre for disadvantaged young people in a leafy suburb of Paris... [More...]
Robert Darène
In the late 1940s, Abbé Pierre decides to open a centre for disadvantaged young people in a leafy suburb of Paris... [More...]
Le Chômeur de Clochemerle (1957)
Jean Boyer
Baptiste Lachaud, known affectionately as Tistin, is the only man in the village of Clochemerle not to have a job. With the help of the local mayor, he gets himself registered as unemployed, so that not only can he carry on doing nothing but he will also be paid for doing so... [More...]
Jean Boyer
Baptiste Lachaud, known affectionately as Tistin, is the only man in the village of Clochemerle not to have a job. With the help of the local mayor, he gets himself registered as unemployed, so that not only can he carry on doing nothing but he will also be paid for doing so... [More...]
Christine (1958)
Pierre Gaspard-Huit
Vienna, 1906. Franz Lobheiner is a dashing young lieutenant in the Austrian army who has been carrying on a clandestine love affair with the Baroness Lena Eggersdorf without her husband knowing... [More...]
Pierre Gaspard-Huit
Vienna, 1906. Franz Lobheiner is a dashing young lieutenant in the Austrian army who has been carrying on a clandestine love affair with the Baroness Lena Eggersdorf without her husband knowing... [More...]
Cinq millions comptant (1957)
André Berthomieu
Virginie Gerbois runs a school for young girls in the village of Chatenay-sous-cloche, totally oblivious to the fact that her husband Achille is leading a double life... [More...]
André Berthomieu
Virginie Gerbois runs a school for young girls in the village of Chatenay-sous-cloche, totally oblivious to the fact that her husband Achille is leading a double life... [More...]
Coiffeur pour dames (1952)
Jean Boyer
Marius may be a humble sheepshearer in deepest Provence but he has dreams of becoming a ladies' hairdresser of the first rank... [More...]
Jean Boyer
Marius may be a humble sheepshearer in deepest Provence but he has dreams of becoming a ladies' hairdresser of the first rank... [More...]